Jerome Cooperative Creamery

Jerome Cooperative Creamery
The building's exterior in 2012
Nearest city Jerome, Idaho
Coordinates 42°43′21″N 114°31′18″W / 42.72250°N 114.52167°W / 42.72250; -114.52167Coordinates: 42°43′21″N 114°31′18″W / 42.72250°N 114.52167°W / 42.72250; -114.52167
Area less than one acre
Built 1915, 1924, 1933
Built by Pugh,H. T.
MPS Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho TR
NRHP reference # 83002338[1]
Added to NRHP September 8, 1983

The Jerome Cooperative Creamery is a cooperative creamery and also refers to historic lava rock structures used by the creamery on Birch Street in Jerome, Idaho, United States. The structures were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. They were built in 1915, 1924, and 1933 by master stonemason H.T. Pugh who popularized the use of lava rock in the Jerome area.[1][2][3]

The Jerome Cooperative Creamery paid $668,356.70 to local farmers for butterfat in 1926. The creamery produced 1.9 million pounds of butter that year.[4] In 1939, the creamery paid $1,183,378 for butterfat.[5] Roy D. Smith was the manager of the creamery for 38 years from the early 1920s until the late 1950s.[6]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Nancy Capace (2001). Encyclopedia of Idaho. North American Book Dist. LLC. p. 315. ISBN 0403096065.
  3. ↑ "Idaho State Historical Society Nomination/Inventory: Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho: Jerome Cooperative Creamery". National Park Service. 1983. Retrieved August 28, 2016. with photo from 1980
  4. ↑ "Creamery Ships Jerome Produce: Farmers Received $668,356.70 for Butterfat During 1926, Report Shows". The Spokesman Review. February 18, 1927.
  5. ↑ "Co-Op Creamery Issues Report: Jerome Plant Paid Its Members $1,183,378 For Butterfat Last Year". Lewiston Morning Tribune. March 6, 1940.
  6. ↑ "Dairy Council Honors Smith". Spokane Daily Chronicle. December 9, 1959.
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